E3 2006

[Assertn]

I'll let you guys know how E3 is tomorrow

[bagandscalpel]

I HIGHLY doubt one person could tell everyone us everything we want to know about the goings on at E3...

But, a little bit's better than none, right?

[darkshadow]

if you would all just join #e3, you would get lots of info

[BioAlien]

just post info here... i don't like going on IRC, since last time i got banned from gotwoot main chat for no darn reason... (i'm still banned..)

[darkshadow]

Oh that sux, ill ask if DO will lift the bans, and here is some of the lastest stuff, that is probably old by now, but still :
The Wii will be powered by a 1.1ghz PowerPC cpu, and a customized x1800 gpu, probably a x1800xt on steroids, this is a good sign, since the Wii's on e3 were just very suped up gamecubes, since the customized x1800 gpu wasnt finished yet.
to compare the xbox had a 733mhz intel celeron hybrid cpu ( it had some p3 features), and a souped up geforce 3 ti500, the gamecube had a 450mhz powerpc cpu and a souped up ati 9200 ( had some pixel shader functionality added)

the x360 and ps3 might seem a ton powerfull - tricore 3.2ghz powerpc cpu, x1900xt(unified); cell 8core 3.2ghz proc ( 6 usable), nvidia rsx (7800gtx) - but keep in mind, these 2 consoles render games natively at 1280x720, Wii only renders its games natively at 640x480, see what im getting at?im convinced Wii's visuals wont stray far behind the 2 big boys, even thought it isnt HD

BodyPad, real body fighting controls
basically a set of sensors that you place on your body, enabling the fighting game character ( said to work with all fighting games for ps2 and xbox), to attack in the same fashion you do, this takes motion sensoring to the next lvl, throw a left punch? just throw a left punch :P, no need to press a button anymore.

the guy was demoeing it and i thought it was really amazing( he showed it working with tekken 5), it was really responsive.

Need For Speed Carbon, next installement in the nfs franchise confirmed only for the ps3 atm, more announcements will obviously follow

jade empire for the pc, prolly coming out this holiday, with updated visuals and 2 new weapons.

Halo3 engine capable of rendering 13 to 14 miles ingame easily, they also revealed they had the halo3 demo running on 2 x360's, and pressed the "A" button simultaniously on both, so incase one x360 might've crashed or broken or somebody accidently tore out the cable, the projector would seemlessly switch to the other x360 :P, nothing happend so it all went smooth.

Splinter Cell Double Agent, will have Spy vs. Merc. cause of lots of feedback from the community after saying it would only be spy vs. spy, no word on if spy vs spy or coop is still in

thats about it for now i think

[Assertn]

Got back from E3.

Got to try out the DS Lite, some donkey kong game for DS, and Mario Hoops for DS. I'll definitely exchange my DS for the lite version when that comes out.

Aside from that, E3 wasn't really as magical as I expected it to be. Anything decent had lines for, and the one for Wii was 5 hours long o.o

[BioAlien]

did you tried the Wii?

... 5 hour of wait??! Oo